User directories integration - request for help

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 10:16 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 01:46 -0400, Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Wait, when did the world switch to using English as a universal language?
> 
> If you do not create directories by default, you don't have to impose
> any language.

How do you portably implement scripts or daemons to work on files in
such dirs?

> > And "bitten by Windows"?  How so; Windows does exactly what you're suggesting 
> > here, and in fact I know of cases where people have BROKEN Windows simply 
> > because they wanted things named in a non-English language.
> 
> You never used a localized version of Windows, right?
I don't know what you are referring to. The only Windows I have ever
used is an ancient "German Win95". The files I had been referring to are
more than 10 years old.

Ralf